<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font face="Arial">Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span><b>Virtual OS Museum,</b> a launcher and Linux VM <span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.16px;">that boots 570-odd operating systems on top of QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM, with everything pre-installed, pre-configured, and rolled back to a known-good state by a snapshot tool when an install breaks.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.2pt; line-height: 22px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 21px;"><font face="Arial"><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://virtualosmuseum.org/"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://virtualosmuseum.org/" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; width: 300px; background-color: rgb(213, 212, 212);" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><font face="Arial"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:168px;" width="300" height="168" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="0. Launcher main window.png" src="cid:7CB3CAC6-8FED-411B-AA82-D609C97215AF"></font></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#D5D4D4" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout: fixed; background-color: rgb(213, 212, 212); -apple-color-filter: initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 500; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-align: left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://virtualosmuseum.org/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);" face="Arial">The Virtual OS Museum</font></a></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: 400; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-align: left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://virtualosmuseum.org/" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);" face="Arial">virtualosmuseum.org</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><p style="line-height: 1.5; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: 0.16px;"></span></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"><font face="Arial">Warkentin's argument for the project is that software preservation has improved significantly since 2003. Some OSes only run on a specific version of an emulator because later versions regressed. Some need patched emulators just to boot on a modern Linux box. Some take a week to install from original tape images.</font></span></p><div id="boing-3262954779" class="boing-primis-video-in-article-content boing-entity-placement" style="height: 366px; margin-bottom: 19px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div id="FreeStarVideoAdContainerInContent"><div id="freestar-video-parent-incontent"><div id="freestar-video-child"></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://virtualosmuseum.org/"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://virtualosmuseum.org/" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#D5D4D4;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:168px;" width="300" height="168" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="0. 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